I chase corpses in Gaowu world

Chapter 164 The three secrets of Tianzhou!The mystery of longevity
Five days later.

Fang Ze returned to Cangxia Mountain.

He went all the way up the mountain, returned to Weiyuan Palace, and went directly to his master's residence.

Wu Daozi is not here.

He asked the boy serving the master inside the door and learned that he had gone out recently and had not returned yet.

Just when he felt something was unlucky, he felt something in his heart. When he looked back, he saw Wu Daozi with a jade belt wrapped around his waist and a sword on his shoulder. He didn't know when he came up behind him.

"Master." Fang Ze greeted quickly.

Wu Daozi smiled and said: "I have been a little slack recently. I went to a fellow Taoist's house to relax and relax my muscles. I just came back."

Fang Ze smiled and nodded.

"Come in." Wu Daozi entered the residence.

Fang Ze followed and came to the study together.

The boy quickly served tea.

Wu Daozi sat firmly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip. After putting it down, he asked: "How are you recently?"

Fang Ze nodded and said, "Fortunately, I had some adventures and got some good things."

After speaking, he waved his hand and took out two bottles of elixirs from the treasure bag.

"This is it?" Wu Daozi asked.

"I did something and got rewarded." Fang Ze said.

He put the elixir on the tea table and said, "This medicine is called Tianwang Shouxin Dan. It can extend life by 20 years."

"Master, take a look, do you need it?"

"Also, the three supreme elders in the sect, Elder Xu, Elder Ning, and Elder Ji don't have much longevity. I wonder if they can use this elixir?"

Fang Zedao.

When he was in the Longkang world, he had verified that the Heavenly King Shouxin Pill did exist and was a mature medicine.

The alchemist is Dong He, the number one elixir master in the Longkang world. He is now an extremely noble person among the imperial doctors of Longkang, and his status is almost equivalent to a first-class official.

Dong He would make a batch of Heavenly King Shouxin Pill every five years. The pills produced at one time were only one to three pills, which were extremely rare in the Longkang world.

The elixir was confirmed to be fine, but Fang Ze was not prepared to take it himself.

It's not that life extension is not good, but whether it is Longkang World or Tianzhou, there is a common sense that life-extending elixirs will have diminishing potency.

After taking a pill that extends life by 20 years, if you are lucky enough to get a pill that extends life by 80 years in the future, after taking it, the two combined will not extend your life by 65 years, but maybe 40 years. Or maybe it's only 50 or [-] years.

Therefore, if the life span is not about to expire, or if the person who got the life-extending elixir is the top-notch life-extending elixir, the person who gets the life-extending elixir may not eat it, and it will be more cost-effective to trade it.

Fang Ze is so young now, he has no shortage of longevity, and has a bright future in the future. There is a great chance to find a better life-extending elixir, so there is no need to take it at this time.

Wu Daozi was a little surprised.

"It turns out to be a life-extending elixir... This surprises me."

He picked up a bottle, opened it and fanned it gently with his hand.

All the medicinal energy emitted by the elixir condensed into a stream and was inhaled by him.

After a while, he nodded slightly.

"It is indeed a life-extending elixir."

He looked at Fang Ze and said with a smile: "You are interested, but I don't need it for the time being."

"Elder Ji once took a life-extending elixir, but he can't use yours. Elder Ning has special reasons that such elixirs are almost ineffective for him and cannot be used."

"Elder Xu may be able to use it. I'll go ask on your behalf."

"Of course, don't worry. The sect has rules regarding disciples' contributions. If you give the elixir to the sect in exchange for the sect's contribution, it will never be lower than the market value."

"Elder Xu will be of use. In addition to the sect's contribution, it may also give you some personal benefits."

Fang Ze nodded.

One aspect of his willingness to give is that he doesn't have to worry about not getting anything in return.

A sect that has been passed down for thousands of years definitely does not rely on strict rules. Sects with a long history like this all know one thing.

That is, don’t test human nature.

In the long run, human nature cannot stand the test, so if you want to pass it on for thousands of years, you should not do things that violate human nature, but make the best use of the situation.

This is the case with the Wanligui sect.

Disciples of the sect obtain good things from outside, and after giving them to the sect, they can exchange them for contributions from the sect, among other benefits.

The benefits are very high, at least not lower than the general market price outside.

In this way, the disciples don't have to worry about losing money, and the sect can operate these gains to make more profits, in exchange for more contributions from the disciples.

And so on and on.

A good school is a virtuous circle.

Wu Daozi left a bottle of Heavenly King Shouxin Pill, and asked Elder Xu after a while after his cleansing.

The other bottle was handed back to Fang Ze.

If Elder Xu needs it, he will notify Fang Ze together with the sect's contribution and Elder Xu's personal reward.

Fang Ze put away another bottle of elixir.

He thought for a while and asked a question he had always wondered.

"Master, the matter of Shouyuan happened to be mentioned today, and I have always been puzzled."

"Why is my lifespan so short in the Heavenly Continent, the Heavenly Realm and the Dharma Realm?"

"I always feel that with a lifespan of three to five hundred years in the realm of gods and humans, and a life span of a thousand or several hundred years in the Dharma realm, it can barely be considered normal," Fang Ze said.

He had always been curious about this.

According to the truth, isn't the stronger the life, the longer it should live?
The lifespan of huge creatures, whether they are elephants, whales, or the sand Kun seen in the Time Cave before, is far longer than others.

Let’s not talk about the Dharma Realm. He doesn’t know much about that level.

But as far as the Celestial Realm is concerned, even if you are in the third or fourth level of the Celestial Realm, it is not very difficult to actually freeze it for dozens of miles and change the course of a large river.

With such power, how come the longevity is only over 100 years?
Wu Daozi nodded slightly.

"I see that your martial arts progress is almost at the ninth transformation of the physical body. Given time, you will not be far from entering the realm of heaven and human."

"I didn't raise this issue before, mainly because the matter has not yet been settled, and it is quite an academic issue among warriors in the Heavenly Human Realm." "But you will step into the Heavenly Human Realm sooner or later, let me tell you. "

"Do you know the 'Three Great Secrets of Tianzhou'?" he asked.

Fang Ze nodded, and replied: "The three secrets of Tianzhou refer to the 'secret of the sudden decrease in longevity after ancient times', the 'secret of the ancient dynasties', and the 'secret of the shrinking universe of Tianzhou'."

He reads a lot, and these three secrets are mentioned in many books left by warriors in the Heavenly Realm.

Wu Daozi smiled and said: "The question about longevity you asked is 'the secret of the sudden decrease in longevity after ancient times.'"

"Your question has been raised by many people, especially those who are knowledgeable and know the ancient legends."

"In ancient times, that is, at the end of mythology, the era when the legendary Buddha, Taoist ancestors and mythical characters existed."

"In the legend, even ordinary people who did not practice martial arts in that era could live for three to five hundred years. Some exceptionally good ordinary people could live for eight hundred years even if they did not practice martial arts."

"Such people are called ancient ancestors."

"Peng Zu?" Fang Ze couldn't help but think of a legendary figure.

Wu Daozi continued: "If the ancient ancestors practiced martial arts, tempered themselves, and reached a state equivalent to today's heaven and human realm, their life span would be at least a thousand years, and the ninth level of heaven and human realm could reach more than 3000 years."

"If you achieve the Dharma, your life span will last ten thousand years."

Fang Ze was shocked.

Tens of thousands of years of life - plus the power of the Dharma Realm to move mountains and fill seas, how is it different from a god?
"But." Wu Daozi said this word.

Fang Ze concentrated.Wu Daozi said:
"But, you have also read a lot of books, and you should know that there are only legends and no evidence about ancient things."

"Almost all written records only begin in medieval times."

"Legends about ancient times all come from the records of scale claws in medieval classics."

"It's really hard to say whether this was the case before ancient times."

"However, one thing is for sure, whether it is in the realm of heaven and man, or in the realm of dharma, since ancient times, lifespan has become shorter and shorter." 2000."

"But by the end of the Middle Ages, the lifespan of the Dharma Realm was only five hundred or seven hundred years old at most."

"As of now, you also know that the lifespan of a person in the realm of gods and humans is more than 140 years, and the lifespan of a person in the realm of Dharma is only more than 200 years."

Fang Ze was shocked.

Why does life get shorter and shorter?

"Master, why is this?"

he asks.

"I want to know too..." Wu Daozi sighed.

Fang Ze nodded.

That's right!

If since the beginning of the world, one can only live for 40 years in the realm of gods and humans, and more than 200 years in the realm of dharma, then forget it.

But now that we know that the lifespan in the realm of heaven and man can reach 3000 years, and the lifespan in the realm of dharma is [-] years, compared with today, who in the world is willing to be willing?
Martial arts is difficult. It is difficult to survive to the realm of gods and humans, or even the realm of Dharma. Who is willing to live one or two hundred years old?

He immediately understood why so many masters of the Heavenly Realm in the world were paying attention to the three secrets of Tianzhou.

Life is time, and time is life——for the masters who stand at the pinnacle of martial arts in today's world, once they unlock the secret of longevity, their lives will be extended by at least ten times. Who would really not care?

Even those who are experts in law are diligent in pursuing it, and are even more interested and enthusiastic about it.

"The masters in the world are so concerned. Even if there is no answer, there are always a few reliable guesses, right?" Fang Ze asked.

He is also very interested now.

Forget it if he didn't know. Now that he knew he could live for such a long time, he was tempted.

"There is no answer. I guess there are a few." Wu Daozi replied.

"In addition to dealing with daily affairs and martial arts practice, most masters in the heaven and human realm will do some academic research."

"The best among them, even if their martial arts realm is not too high, they will be respected by others."

"Currently, in the academic circle of the Heavenly Realm, there are three relatively mainstream views on the 'secret of the sudden decrease in lifespan after ancient times'." He said.

Fang Ze nodded and listened more carefully.

He has long known that masters of the Heavenly Realm have academic circles.

Of course, what this academic circle studies is definitely not the several ways to write the word fennel for fennel beans.

Masters in the Heavenly Realm don't have that much time to spare.

The academic circle of martial arts masters also studies martial arts, the rules of heaven, the mysteries of martial arts, or the mysteries of the world.

To put it bluntly, the research is either related to strength or methods to improve strength.

Or something extremely important.

The matter of Shouyuan is not a trivial matter to anyone, and there must be academic research.

In such a circle, not to mention the realm of gods and humans, even Dharma masters may participate.

Among them, the mainstream view may be the martial arts understanding of some expert, plus the research results.

The more he listened to it, the more interesting it became, and he wanted to study it himself.

"Master, what three are they?" he asked.

Wu Daozi said: "The most mainstream one is the theory of vitality cycle. The mission of this theory is that in the universe, vitality has a cycle of ups and downs."

"The era before ancient times was an era of abundant vitality. At that time, whether it was learning martial arts or extending one's life span, it was ten or a hundred times easier than it is now."

"Now is the era of lack of vitality. If you want to restore the longevity of the world, you have to wait until the next abundant cycle."

Fang Ze pursed his lips.

This theory made sense, but he didn't want to believe it.

If this were to happen, the cycle of ups and downs would take tens of thousands of years. Who could afford to wait?

10 years is too long, seize the day and night.

"What about the other two theories?" Fang Ze asked.

"There are also two theories of Tianzhou collapse and the powerful seal." Wu Daozi said.

He continued: "The theory of the collapse of Tianzhou follows the theory that at the end of the era of gods and demons, powerful melee battles destroyed Tianzhou until it collapsed. It believed that Tianting, Jiuyou, etc. all disappeared, and Tianzhou as a whole was destroyed, causing The vitality is leaked and the laws are disordered, so that now the lifespan has been drastically reduced."

"As for the powerful seal, it was also a matter of the late stage of the rebirth of gods and demons. It is believed that for some reason, a powerful person sealed the laws of heaven and earth between Tianzhou and Shouyuan, causing the lifespan to plummet."

"Each of these three schools of thought is reasonable and has some evidence."

"Unfortunately, so far, we still haven't figured out why, and there's no way to change it."

Wu Daozi sighed.

Fang Ze also shook his head slightly.

what a shame.

He felt a little scratched after hearing this, wishing that someone would be able to solve the mystery of longevity tomorrow, so that the world could immediately extend their lifespan again and return to ancient times, at least the longevity of the Middle Ages.

"Master, since the longevity is not reduced by a day or two, then there is no Dharma master who can provide some important evidence and propose some solutions?"

Fang Ze asked.

Wu Daozi shook his head.

"It's so hard."

"If you want to find tangible evidence and solutions, there is currently a generally accepted view in the Tianrenjing academic community that there are only two ways."

"Or, unlock the other one of the three great secrets of Tianzhou, which is the 'Secret of Ancient Era'."

"Or, you can also get evidence by finding the 'Heavenly Court', 'Netherworld' and other places where the Tianzhou is broken and it is unknown which void it fell into."

"But this is too difficult."

Fang Ze also sighed in his heart.

This is true.

There was silence in the room for a while.

When Fang Ze had almost digested the new news, he remembered something.

"Master, what is a 'Legend'?"

"I'm talking about the legend in the mouth of Heaven and Human Realm."

"When I was in Guangling before, I met Lan Bining, the leader of the Flying Snake Sect, and she told me the word 'legend'."

"I asked her, but she didn't explain."

"Among the masters of the Heavenly Realm, what does 'legend' mean?"

he asked.

"Lan Bining, she..." After hearing this, Wu Daozi seemed to think of something, with a look of reminiscence on his face.

That expression seems to make people think there is a story.

After a moment, his thoughts returned and he said: "'Legend' is not a real martial arts term. It is just a legend circulated among our generation and the previous generations."

"The meaning contained in it is somewhat special..."

(End of this chapter)